Apparatus for storing



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W. DOERPLINGERR APPARATUS FOR STORING, MEASURING, AND EXHIBITING DRYGOODS, 8w.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WILLIADM DOERFLlNGER, OF LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN.

APPARATUS FOR STORING, MEASURING, AND EXHIBITING DRY-GOODS, 8L0.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 384,74'Ldated June 19,1888.

Application filed March 20. 1888. Serial No 267.819. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it k nown that I, \VILLIAM DoERFLINo ER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at La Grosse, in the county of La Crosse and State ofWisconsin, have invented a new and useful Im provementin Apparatus forStoring, Measuring, and Exhibiting Dry-Goods, 8%., of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in apparatus for storing,exhibiting, and measuring oil-cloth, curtain holland, opaque paperoambrics, silesias, and other dry-goods and materials; and it consistsin the peculiar construction and combination of devices that will bemore fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in theclaims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of anapparatus embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical transversesectional vicw of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view.

A represents a' pair of vertical standards, which have their lower endsconnected by a cross-bar, B. In the upper ends of the standards A isjournaled the central shaft, G, of a reel, which reel comprises a pairof heads, E, having radial arms F. The said heads are circular in shape,and one of the heads is provided with a series of openings, G, which areequidistant apart, there being one of the said openings for each radialarm.

H represents a spring-actuated locking-bolt which moves longitudinallyin a bearing in one of the standards A, and is adapted to engage one ofthe openings G, so as to lock the reel to the standard at any desiredposition. Each of the said standards A is provided at its upper end onits outer side with apair of stops or detents, I K, said stops ordetents being arranged diagonally opposite each other and being oneabove the-other, as shown.

L represents a measuring board or table of suitable length, and which ispreferably onehalf a yard in width, or may be as wide as any otherpreferred unit of measure. The said measuring table or board is providedat its ends withapairof eXtendingarms,M,which have their ends pivoted onthe projecting ends of the central shaft of the reel and bearing againstthe outer sides of standards A, the said arms being retained on the endsof the shaft by means of nuts N, which are screwed to the said ends ofthe shaft. On the upper side of the measuring table or board, at theinner edge thereof, is a vertically-movable rule or guide, 0, which issupported at its ends by rods 1?, which work in vertical openings in theinner corners of the table or board.

R represents a pair of fiat springs, which are arranged on the underside of the table or board,near the inner ends of the'same, and the endsof said springs bear against the lower ends of the rods P and pressupward thereon, thereby normally raising the rule 0 from the table orboard.

S represents a series of hollow cylindrical oted to the outer ends ofthe radial arms of the reel by means of bolts or pins V, the said holders being thereby suspended from the said arm of the reels.

The operation of my invention is-as follows: Cloths or fabrics which areusually stored in rolls are slipped into the holders through the openends thereof, and the free ends of the rolls of fabric or cloth arepassed through the longitudinal slots in the holders and dependtherefrom for a suitable distance, thereby exposing the said ends of therolls to view and enabling the same to be readily examined andinspected, while the rolls of cloth or fabric are securely arrangedwithin the holders and pro tected from dust and dirt. The measuringtablemay be moved to a vertical position, so

as to cause its arms to bear against the stop I,

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and drawn over the measuring table or board and under the rule orpresser-bar O. The cloth may be measured as it is drawn over the tableor board, the latter being used as a unit of measure, and when thedesired quantity of cloth has been unrolled from the holder the salesmanpresses down upon the rule or presserbar and draws a knife or shearsover the inner edge of the same across the fabric,thereby severing themeasured portion of the fabric from the remaining portion of the roll.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination of therevoluhle reel and the tubular pendent holders pivotally suspendedtherefrom and thereby prevented from rotating axially when the reel isturned and having the longitudinal slits, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the revoluble reel and the tubular holderssuspended eccentrically therefrom and having the open ends and thelongitudinal slits, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the standards, the reel journaled therein, theholders suspended eccentrically from the outer ends of the reelarms, andthe measuring-board L, having the arms M pivoted to the standards,substantially as described.

4. The combination of the standards having the steps I K on oppositesidesof the axis of the reel, the reel journaled in the said standards,the holders suspended from the outer ends ofthe reel-arms, and themeasuring board or table having the arms pivoted to the standards on theaxis of the reel and adapted to be supported in a vertical or horizontalposition by the steps I K, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with thestandards and the reel journaled therein andhaving the eccentricallysuspended holders, of the measuring table orboard supported on one side of the reel, the ruler 0 arrangedtransversely over the same and having the arms P arranged and guided inopenings in the board or table, and the spring R, secured to the boardor table and bearing against the arms I? to normally elevate the ruler,substantially as described.

6. In combination with the revoluble reel, the tubular holders pivotallysuspended therefrom and arranged eccentrically, and having thelongitudinal slits and the measuring-board arranged on one side of thereel and adapted to receive the goods from the holders. In testimonythatIclaim the foregoing as-my own I have hereto affixed my signature inpres ence of two witnesses.

\VILLI'AM DOERFLINGER.

Witnesses:

EDWARD BOSSHARD, FRANK P. SHUMAN.

